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The Use of Verbs in International Chinese Language Education

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Learning Technologies and Systems (ICWL 2022, SETE 2022)

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Verbs are not only the core of sentences, but also the focus of vocabulary research and teaching. This paper takes a commonly used verb xiàn ‘trap’ as an example to explore the use of verbs. This word is listed in The Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, which has been newly implemented worldwide since 2021. This study has analyzed the syntactic use of xiàn ‘trap’ from the aspects of syntactic functions and intensity of syntactic collocations, as well as the semantic use of xiàn ‘trap’ from the aspect of its semantic roles. It combines quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis to explore the syntactic and semantic use, which not only deepens the linguistic research of verbs, but also provides reference for verb teaching in language education and the compilation of Chinese learners’ dictionaries.

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This research is supported by the University of Macau (MYRG2022–00191-FAH; MYRG2019–00013-FAH).

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    Shan Wang

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    Carina S. González-González

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    Baltasar Fernández-Manjón

  3. Durham University, Durham, UK

    Frederick Li

  4. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  5. Mercatorum University, Rome, Italy

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Wang, S. (2023). The Use of Verbs in International Chinese Language Education. In: González-González, C.S., et al. Learning Technologies and Systems. ICWL SETE 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33023-0_25

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